Shelly Sigo

Richland County, S.C., council members are poised to try to ask voters for the second time in two years to approve a 1-cent, 20-year sales tax to finance nearly $940 million in transit and road projects.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Thursday to consider whether it will review the so-called water war case between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

The governing board for Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. last week voted to hire a new president from the private insurance sector.

Tampa Bay Water's governing board Monday decided to move forward with an appeal in its suit challenging what it believes is a faulty reservoir design.

Jefferson County residents complain that creditors holding $3.14 billion of defaulted sewer warrants helped push the county into Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Atlanta City Council late Monday approved a $1.8 billion budget that won't require an increase in property taxes in fiscal 2013.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Gilt-edged Georgia plans to competitively sell $741.5 million of new and refunding general obligation bonds this week.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The National Environmental Policy Act was violated when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear plant licensing, environmentalists have argued in a federal appeal.

BRADENTON, Fla. - John Forney, a public finance advisor and specialist in insurance and catastrophe bonds at Raymond James | Morgan Keegan, is leaving the investment bank to become chief executive officer of a Florida-based property insurance company.

The Georgia Department of Transportation last week issued a request for qualifications for firms interested in designing, building and partially financing the nearly 30-mile, $1 billion Northwest Corridor project along Interstate 75 and 575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties.

Florida’s three largest counties, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, are reporting their first annual increase in taxable property values since 2007.

Jefferson County, Ala.’s bankruptcy case administrator must search for new members to serve on a committee representing unsecured creditors, Judge Thomas Bennett ruled last week.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s tax-exempt bond offering Tuesday was oversubscribed 2-1/2 times after receiving $3.8 billion in orders.

BRADENTON, Fla. – The Florida Department of Transportation is preparing to raise tolls to help finance $1.8 billion of road improvement projects.

BRADENTON, Fla. — After the sale of $673 million of bonds to finance most of North Carolina's second toll road — the 19.7-mile Monroe Connector — the project has stalled.

Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will bring $1.25 billion of bonds and notes to market in a deal that could be upsized to $1.5 billion if conditions warrant.

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday downgraded Port St. Lucie, Fla.’s senior-lien utility revenue bonds to A1 from Aa3.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which oversees the 3.5-mile Garcon Point toll bridge in northwest Florida, has canceled its June 13 meeting.

The Jefferson County, Ala., Commission has scheduled the first of three public hearings on sewer rates, which provide the revenue securing the county’s $3.14 billion of defaulted sewer warrants.

More than a dozen Birmingham residents, including two City Council members and two Alabama lawmakers, on Monday filed a $1.63 billion claim in Jefferson County's Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.